The written agreement that will control Virginia's settlement with US 460 Mobility partners, which got something like $256 million not to build a new U.S. 460, is still being lawyered, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation, but it's a done deal.

While recent polls have suggested Hillary Clinton is running ahead of likely GOP candidates for president in the 2016 election (and one, PPP, suggesting Bernie Sanders could give several Republicans a real run for their money) that’s not what the latest Quinnipiac Poll shows

Near the end of his monthly call-in show on WRVA this morning, Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he's got his secretary of finance taking a look at the state tax code, potentially ahead of a significant reform effort.

A new study from researchers at Columbia and Northwestern universities concludes that states that decline to expand Medicaid are shifting costs to local hospitals, overweighting the importance of their own budgetary savings.

Remembering the shopping mall Marine Corps recruiting center where he signed up, and the Reserves center where he drilled from 1978 to 1984, Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, been worried for a while whether a two decade old standing order banning concealed weapons on military bases made sense...

Yeah, yeah, it’s 16 months ahead of Election Day for the presidency, but who can resist a poll, right? And especially since the latest from Democratic-oriented PPP might raise eyebrows by suggesting Virginians don’t necessarily love our native sons.

Curious about state Sen. Tommy Norment’s donations to some new GOP faces in Senate races around the state, Shad Plank found an unexpectedly active contest (at least as measured by fundraising) in the deep red District 19, based in Roanoke’s suburbs.

The Peninsula is unusual in having not one, but two (count 'em!), House districts that are actually competitive, and so Shad Plank took a look at the race for money that always precedes the race for votes.

First off the draw in Virginia’s Capitol Hill squad with reactions to the Iran nuclear agreement that Congress will now consider were two senators saying he wants to study hard and two members of Congress saying they didn’t like it much.

On this day, 226 years ago, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille fortress, freeing men and women languishing in a prison under royal lettres de cachet against which there was no appeal. The ordinary Parisians who boldly faced the guns and cannons of the royal army did so because they feared...

Now that it turns out Virginia’s tax collections came in more than a half billion dollars above forecast, retailers are again asking for an end to one measure that helped the state get there: the accelerated sales tax collection for June.

Some $78 million the state set aside for work on U.S. 460 instead will go to buy out tolls that were to be charged by another controversial public-private partnership transportation deal in Hampton Roads, Gov. Terry McAuliffe said.

The Florida Supreme Court today ordered the Republican-controlled legislature there to redraw at least eight of the state's 27 Congressional districts, ruling that the current map violates the state constitution's ban on partisan gerrymandering.

A new tax on hospital and other health care revenues could plow billions back into the industry in Virginia, both from the proceeds of the tax and the corresponding uptick in federal Medicaid payments.

The temporary but lengthening shut-down of a federal web site used for submitting background investigation forms after it was hacked is exactly the kind of thing that would drive a former tech executive nuts – and so Sen. Mark Warner, joined by fellow Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine. wants to know what...

When their travels in Virginia take Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Tim Kaine to the working waterfront of Hampton Roads, both tend to make a pitch for a once obscure, now controversial federal agency called the Export-Import Bank.